SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 162: Going Out with a Kitchen Knife_1
Early in the morning, as the sun rose to dispel the deep red night, it injected vibrant vitality into the city known as "Passionate Paradise."
In an ordinary detached house with a small courtyard, a graceful figure paced back and forth inside, seemingly preparing for something.
"There are... five hours left until eleven o’clock."
Liu Yun wiped the sweat from her forehead with one hand and, placing a hand on her hip, surveyed the freshly tidied room. She nodded slightly and then kept busy adding pink decorations to the room.
However, she hadn’t stuck on many before she stopped again.
"Will he like this... pink style, or maybe blue? Or does purple add a sense of mystery?"
Bitting her lip with hesitation, Liu Yun finally decided on a blue color scheme—
She remembered that Colin seemed to have an aversion to red things.
Then blue it is...
After bustling around to prepare the room, she went to the bathroom to take a shower. Her alluring white body was faintly visible through the steam, and her clear humming echoed from the room, with pink tendrils occasionally reaching out from behind the door, quivering joyfully in the air...
Before long, Liu Yun emerged from the bathroom and, trailing wet steps, went to the dressing room to change into an intellectual outfit.
"He seems to like it on the larger side, so I’ll make it a bit bigger..."
"Hmm, should my legs be a bit longer?"
"I can have longer hair, he likes waist-length hair, and I should look a bit younger, more lively..."
"Ah, right, stockings, should I choose black or white?"
"For the bra, should I go for front-hook or back-hook..."
The immense creature’s irregular shadow reflected a tall and shapely form as it spoke to itself.
After a while, a vibrant and lovely human figure walked out of the house and sat down at the dressing table.
In the mirror was reflected a youthful girl with a face that radiated liveliness. She wore a dress with a delicate bow at the neckline, and her slender white legs swayed gently beneath the hem, encased in black stockings at knee height.
Liu Yun squinted at her reflection in the mirror. After finding no flaws, she reached for the makeup box on the table.
Nearly an hour of meticulous grooming later, she put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, adding an intellectual beauty to her spirited appearance.
"He... will he like this? I made up specially for him, will he hate it?"
Liu Yun was uncertain. Fearing being called out for trying too hard, she had only applied a light makeup, daring not to overdo it.
Yet, she couldn’t help but smile a little as she remembered talking with Colin yesterday and how he couldn’t even distinguish the thick makeup on their teacher’s face.
Thump.
A red box unintentionally got knocked to the floor. Seeing the 0.01 written on the small box that looked like a pack of chewing gum, Liu Yun’s face immediately flushed.
Looking around, she picked it up feeling like a thief with a guilty conscience.
"If, if... it really happens... for the first time... maybe we shouldn’t use this. I’ve heard... they say without it, boys might feel more... comfortable?" 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
With her face burning red, Liu Yun pursed her lips, hid the box in a random corner, then, picking up a small teddy bear purse, she left the room.
At ten o’clock, she carried a cake and made a trip to "Colin’s House," but didn’t see Colin there. His sister said he went out yesterday and hadn’t come home.
"Didn’t come home all night?"
A hint of danger suddenly appeared in Liu Yun’s eyes.
After saying goodbye to Colin’s sister, she wandered the streets, pondering how to start the conversation if she bumped into him—
"What a coincidence, I just came out too, didn’t expect to run into you. Want to join me?"
Or, more directly: "I was looking for you, come to my house for a birthday party?"
"No, no... just the two of us, what kind of party is that."
Her thoughts jumbled, she fantasized for a while, but even after she returned home, she still hadn’t "accidentally" bumped into Colin.
He looked up, feeling somewhat disappointed, and glanced at the clock.
Eleven forty-eight.
"Yesterday, didn’t he say he would come at one o’clock? Just wait a little longer, don’t rush; that’s right, better prepare the meal first..."
She placed the cake on the table and then went into the kitchen to make a few dishes, which she then brought to the table.
Afterward, she sat on one side of the table, pricked up her ears to listen for any noise from the door, and kept her eyes fixed on the clock, eagerly awaiting one o’clock.
As she waited, the hour hand finally reached one o’clock...
She eagerly watched the door, but unfortunately, the expected figure did not appear.
"Perhaps, perhaps something just held him up, don’t rush..."
Liu Yun comforted herself and, looking at the cold meal, her expression began to show disappointment.
Another period of fruitless waiting passed...
Two o’clock.
"Could it be, a traffic jam? It must be, today is the weekend, after all, being a little late is normal..."
Liu Yun murmured to herself.
However, at three o’clock, four o’clock, five o’clock, and even as evening approached...
The figure still had not appeared.
Whoosh.
Liu Yun looked at the setting sun outside the window and suddenly stood up without expression, heading to the kitchen.
Before long, when she emerged once more, she carried a cleaver in her right hand and left the living room door without pause.
Her elegant silhouette soon disappeared around the corner of the street.
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Meanwhile, in Rain City, Colin had no idea that someone might be coming after him with a cleaver, and at that moment he was also not paying much attention to the "classmate" who had once helped him on the bus.
At that time, after a brief rest and resupply, they had embarked on the next leg of their journey.
The journey went smoothly, with hardly any obstacles; occasional narration or attacks from the sky were not serious issues.
The former required only a bit of caution to handle, while the latter, as long as they did not come in an overwhelmingly large number at once, could be broken through by Colin leading the others.
"That so-called ’Formless Mother’ is really tightly restrained, hasn’t come out again."
Colin casually drew his gun and with a couple of bangs, easily blasted the approaching heads.
Ordinary bullets certainly couldn’t do this...
But fortuitously, the bullets bought from Bonfire Company, costing at least several hundred each, not only provided a one hundred and fifty percent increase in power but also had an effect that restrained sinister beings.
So, a casual shot hitting those heads would easily kill them.
But more intriguing to him than this was a certain oddity regarding the remains.
"All these heads, if I’m not mistaken, are genuine, belonging to humans. How can this ghastly place have so many dead human heads?"
Colin was endlessly perplexed; on the way, they had encountered thousands, if not tens of thousands of heads, and by his intuition, Colin estimated that this might just be the tip of the iceberg.
The true number of heads could be so vast that it might send a chill down one’s spine with just one glance.
After all, "Rain City" might be called a city, but it could be much larger than an average urban area...
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